I probably miss something but what?

[Belial0harvester 2]

Hi there,

I'm really not a good coder I'm afraid.

I copy/paste it from wiki or these boards and, through trial and error,  I usually manage to do what I want. Thanks, by the way, for all this info. :)

But this time I'm confronted with something I have no explanation for.

This is a SP mission.

Im trying to move the player to a location, have 5 squad members spawn around him and make this whole group move to a location.

It worked fine until my group leader got shot and I found myself leading the squad, which I do not want.

So, I figured the best way was to give units ranks and I tried this in console with success :

 

player setPos (getMarkerPos "ret1"); 

private ["_sl","_hmg","_med","_gl","_rf6"]; 
 
private _group = createGroup [WEST, true]; 
 
_sl =  "uns_men_USMC_65_SL" createUnit [getMarkerPos "ret2", _group]; 
_sl setUnitRank "SERGEANT"; 
 
_hmg = "uns_men_USMC_65_HMG" createUnit [getMarkerPos "ret3", _group]; 
_hmg setUnitRank "SERGEANT"; 
 
_med = "uns_men_USMC_65_MED" createUnit [getMarkerPos "ret4", _group]; 
_med setUnitRank "CORPORAL"; 
_med getUnitTrait "Medic"; 
 
_gl = "uns_men_USMC_65_GL" createUnit [getMarkerPos "ret5", _group]; 
_gl setUnitRank "CORPORAL"; 
 
_rf6 = "uns_men_USMC_65_RF6" createUnit [getMarkerPos "ret6", _group]; 
_rf6 setUnitRank "CORPORAL"; 
 
[player] joinSilent _group; 

As the lowest ranked soldier, I am never put into leader position when the squad leader dies.

But this same code put in a SQF file returns the following error :
 

|#|_gl setunitRank "CORPORAL";

_rf6 = un..."

Error Undefined Variable in expression: _gl

I tired this :

 

player setPos (getMarkerPos "ret1"); 

private ["sl","hmg","med","gl","rf6"]; 
 
private _group = createGroup [WEST, true]; 
 
sl =  "uns_men_USMC_65_SL" createUnit [getMarkerPos "ret2", _group]; 
sl setUnitRank "SERGEANT"; 
 
hmg = "uns_men_USMC_65_HMG" createUnit [getMarkerPos "ret3", _group]; 
hmg setUnitRank "SERGEANT"; 
 
med = "uns_men_USMC_65_MED" createUnit [getMarkerPos "ret4", _group]; 
med setUnitRank "CORPORAL"; 
med getUnitTrait "Medic"; 
 
gl = "uns_men_USMC_65_GL" createUnit [getMarkerPos "ret5", _group]; 
gl setUnitRank "CORPORAL"; 
 
rf6 = "uns_men_USMC_65_RF6" createUnit [getMarkerPos "ret6", _group]; 
rf6 setUnitRank "CORPORAL"; 
 
[player] joinSilent _group; 

And it returns pretty mcuh the same error.

 

I am at a loss, I'm afraid.

If anyone can help please?

Regards,



 

[JCataclisma 80]

The thing that I have noticed is that

--on the MEDIC trait, you have an additional "getUnitTrait", which is not present at the others.
Try and remove that "getUnitTrait" line to see if the error stops.

Or even better: according to Wiki, you should try the other syntax:

player setUnitTrait ["Medic", true];

 

_med = "uns_men_USMC_65_MED" createUnit [getMarkerPos "ret4", _group]; 
_med setUnitRank "CORPORAL"; 
// _med getUnitTrait "Medic"; // try changing this one as bellow or removing this one, for starters;
_med setUnitTrait ["Medic", true];

You see, the error you received from the game is prior to "_gl", so it's most likely related to that medic line right before it.

[pierremgi 4863]

Private is for setting local variables.

private ["sl","hmg","med","gl","rf6"]; // wrong anyway

private ["_sl","_hmg","_med","_gl","_rf6"]; // these variables are defined and ready for values.

 

In your above code, you are using getUnitTrait instead of setUnitTrait for medic.

 

 

 

[POLPOX 778]

That syntax of createUnit doesn't return the spawned object. Use main syntax instead.

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/createUnit

[Belial0harvester 2]

Aaaah, thanks alot everyone, you solved my issue 🙂

 

This works like a charm :

 

player setPos (getMarkerPos "ret1"); 

private ["_sl","_hmg","_med","_gl","_rf6"]; 
 
private _group = createGroup [WEST, true]; 


_sl = _group createUnit ["uns_men_USMC_65_SL", getMarkerPos "ret2",[], 0, "NONE"];
_sl setUnitRank "SERGEANT"; 
 
_hmg = _group createUnit ["uns_men_USMC_65_HMG", getMarkerPos "ret3",[], 0, "NONE"];
_hmg setUnitRank "SERGEANT"; 
  
_med = _group createUnit ["uns_men_USMC_65_MED", getMarkerPos "ret4",[], 0, "NONE"];
_med setUnitRank "CORPORAL"; 
_med setUnitTrait ["Medic", true];
  
_gl = _group createUnit ["uns_men_USMC_65_GL", getMarkerPos "ret5",[], 0, "NONE"];
_gl setUnitRank "CORPORAL"; 

_rf6 = _group createUnit ["uns_men_USMC_65_RF6", getMarkerPos "ret6",[], 0, "NONE"]; 
_rf6 setUnitRank "CORPORAL"; 
 
[player] joinSilent _group; 

One additional question though : I have to add this medic trait to this unit cause for some reason, UNSUNG USMC corpsman does not behave as such. Does anybody know why? Is this a small overlook maybe?

I tried looking into the CfgVehicle entry but I can't figure the difference between this unit and another medical unit which actually does a medic job.

I'm not using ACE. This aspect is all vanilla I believe.

[pierremgi 4863]

Probably because attendant token in not set to 1 in cfgVehicles for UNSUNG medics.

attendant = 1;   //for vanilla "B_Medic_F"

[Belial0harvester 2]

Aaah, merci Pierre 🙂